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No blinders needed for her three other squad frauds ...

Dissing Us

President  Obummer's reception in China at the current G20 summit was, to say the most, shockingly disrespectful. To me, a possible reason for these almost unprecedented diplomatic slights is simple ...  at the top of our president's agenda is his denigrating ... through word and deed ... of the country he represents ... or, to put a shine on his lassitude, "leading from behind." For a deeper analysis of these shameful Chinese reception incidents, see: Powerline Blog.

And we're not just being dissed by China ... Russia, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea openly spit on us at every opportunity. And even many of our former allies, the Philippines, Israel, Brazil, Egypt, and Turkey are crossing the street to avoid tipping their hats to our president ... and thus to the United States.

Why have we become such pariahs to such a wide swath of the world? And all in just eight short years! I've got it! It must be that all these world leaders are, at heart, racists!

Good Job, Tommy

"Good job, Brownie"

George W. Bush complimenting the then FEMA Director “Brownie” (Michael Brown) after the hurricane Katrina was not one of Bush’s finest moments … even though Brownie certainly shared blame for that poor New Orleans disaster response with the governor of Louisiana (Kathleen Blanco) and the Mayor of the city (Ray Nagin, who is now in prison for corruption).

Now President Obama is covering this Bush moment with his support for his Director of the CDC, Dr. Thomas Frieden. Tommy exuded an air of confidence and his sonorous voice reinforced this demeanor during his early handling of the Ebola crisis. However, his string of failed assurances, poor administrative talents, and his flawed logic (see: Logic is Logic) has led me to conclude that he must have inhaled too much chloroform during his medical school days.

This opinion on my part was reinforced today when I discovered that he was for 7 years Mayor Bloomberg’s Commissioner of Public Health in New York City … see: Wikipedia Entry. If you recall, it was during this period that the city forced chain restaurants to list the caloric content of all their dishes; installed draconian increases in cigarette taxes; tried to ban all soft drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces, eliminate trans-fats in restaurant meals, and salt shakers from their tables.

Now I suppose that these nanny-state strictures are hailed by liberals, but, to me, they indicate that the doctor is a political animal before he is an administrator … just like our president. Leading from behind in this Ebola crisis is a dangerous stratagem … as we are daily finding out.

Afterward: The U.S. is still issuing 100 or so visas a day to people from the three West-African nations which are the centers of the Ebola outbreak ... see: Daily Signal Story. "Even better job, Tommy!"

Punctuality

Why is Obama almost always late? Yesterday afternoon he was over an hour late for his scheduled press conference focused on his Africa summit. And now the Washington Post has finally taken notice and documented that he has been cumulatively tardy well over 35 hours just for his 200 public appearances in 2014 … see: Washington Post Story .  This averages out to being about 11 minutes late per scheduled appearance.

One can offer numerous excuses for this lack of punctuality, but none seems more to my taste than he is just unconcerned by such social niceties. If we are willing to wait for him … like his six month delay in deciding about how to wage his "just war" in Afghanistan … then this shows how much we respect him and forgive him his foibles ... his tendency to lead from behind (a true oxymoron if I ever heard one.).

He is constantly kicking the can down the road and putting off any truly decisive action in dealing with Russia’s mischief in the Ukraine, the ISIS advances in Iraq, the Syrian civil war, Iran’s potential nuclear belligerence, the Israeli/Gaza turmoil, U.S. tax reform, the immigration crisis, all his many serious governmental scandals, chronic underemployment, etc., etc.

So what is a mere eleven minutes? Get over it you "bitter clingers" ... you "typical white folks" you!

Rose-Colored Glasses

Yesterday President Obama released his budget … over two months late, but who’s counting?  The Senate and the House have already passed their budgets.  And, in typical Obama fashion, he is “leading from behind” or, maybe better phrased, “leading from his behind.”  Much of the left-leaning media is so impressed with the mere fact that he has done this rare feat … that they have given this document the benefit of the doubt on most of its lame assumptions. But this financial flight of fancy still grows our nation’s debt into the stratosphere … by almost $9 trillion over ten years (see: Breitbart Story).  And, in his patented “I don’t give a spit.” fashion, Obama even said that this budget doesn’t contain “a lot of smoke and mirrors” (see: Another Breitbart Story). Not a lot of smoke and mirrors?!? Wow!  Does anyone believe that it should contain any smoke and mirrors?

Senator Patty Murray was the architect of the Democrat's Senate budget which was seriously flawed by unrealistic GNP growth rate assumptions (see: Pattycake).  And Obama is following suit by also looking at the United States’ economic outlook through rose-colored glasses.  Even Politico points this flaw out in the following passage from its news blog: 

The faster the economy grows, the more taxes will be collected. At the same time, unemployment and low-income spending will decline. So good growth is a key to a better budget outlook. This administration projected growth of 3 percent in 2013, 3.6 percent in 2014 and more than 4 percent in 2015. Reality paints a different picture. Growth in 2012 was 2.2 percent and 2013 looks on track for another disappointing 2 percent. The gap between forecast and reality will not, however, stop another round of rosy assumptions.

To read more of this, see: Politico Story.  But, since the President’s budget was, apparently, not a serious policy document … but was, like most things he does, purely political, such Pollyanna-ish pronouncements were only meant for the Peanut Gallery (apparently the majority of U.S. voters) anyway.

Leading from Behind

The Barry and his handlers have coined a new political oxymoron: “leading from behind.” They have used it to excuse The Barry’s hiding under his oval-office desk regarding acknowledging our “kinetic actions” in Libya, pushing The Joe (Biden) out to negotiate our way out of the administration’s debt-ceiling impasse with Congress, tepidly defending the Pelosi/Reid health-care bill (which has been so inaptly named Obamacare) by granting multitudinous exemptions, and countless other leadership lapses.

The image that immediately comes to my mind is the picture of Michael Dukakis as a tank commander.